Katie Holmes went underground before Cruise split

Katie Holmes reportedly cut off communications from almost all of her friends - switching cell phones and e-mail addresses, before pulling off a daring escape from Tom Cruise.

The 'Dawson's Creek' star played all of her cards close to the vest, treating many of her closest pals on a need-to-know basis, leading up to her bombshell divorce filing in New York seven days ago."She was talking to Tom on the phone up until last week saying, 'I love you'," the New York Post quoted a source close to the actress as telling People magazine.Even when Holmes, 33, was away in China last month, her dad and closest pals were secretly pulling strings for her big flee for freedom."Her inner circle has been planning this and switching out cell phones since she was in China [in mid-June]."When new cell phones arrived, then nobody could reach her. Her old best friends from last week don't have her new number, no e-mail. She's unreachable," the source said.Cruise knew his wife had rented a new Chelsea apartment in early June but the 'Top Gun' astar didn't know it was a piece of Holmes' grand escape plan."[Tom] knew that she moved there, but [he thought it was] for different reasons."She said she moved there to drive into the underground garage. There are fewer paparazzi and it's less intrusive for her."It was the first phase of getting everything out of the house, and that's why she was able to say she's moving without giving an indication that she was going to divorce him," the source added.